Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot.

The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.

Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard affair.

A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.

To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.

No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence.

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.